Our March/April 2022 issue is out now and features…

• Arthur Smith: how to give an after-dinner speech

• Sonic Stew: Stewart Lee’s top ten new music releases

• TV Royalty: Andy Harries, producer of The Crown, on the art of great telly

• Healing Herbs in History: Idler Art Director Alice Smith’s beautiful images of ancient remedies

• Eating Out: Victoria Hull visits Margate’s Sargasso

• Blooming Lovely: Rhiannon Batten’s guide to Britain’s most beautiful cherry blossoms

• How To Use Your Time Well: Philosophy with Mark Vernon

• A Baker’s Life: Andy Wright’s working day running an organic bakery in North Wales

• Don’t Worry, Be Happy: Rachel Kelly says there’s a new therapy on the block

• Milton’s Wild Years: The seeds of the poet’s greatness were sown during a period of aimless loafing, says Joe Moshenska

• The Man Who Wasn’t There: Tim Richardson on Magritte

• Sort Your Life Out: Virginia Ironside solves your problems

• Easter Feasting: Lindsey Bareham helps you cater for merry gangs

• Cartoons from Modern Toss, Royston, Gray Jolliffe and Shadbolt

• Competition: can you guess the real author of our story “The Bird is the Word”?

Plus: Books, Beer, Beekeeping, Spring fashions, Art Flâneur, Ukulele, Spirits, Sheds, Easy Money, Slow Tech, the Art of Growing Beans, Alex Bellos’s Puzzle page and Idle Pets.

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